How the does the economic system works?

[MrHusky]

A 5v Gengar costed 1.2m 2 years ago, and now it still costs nearly the same price, how could this happen?  As anyone knows, the amount of 5v Gengar keeps increasing all the time(no way to consume them except making 6v, which is a corner case). In short, why all the prices of the Pokemon do not drop with constantly increasing captures?

 

[TohnR]

Because the price of the mon on the market is related with the amount of money required to breed said mon
As you may know, you need to spend items "power braces" that cost 10k each to transmit IVs. Their value isn't purely speculative, if the value goes bellow the cost of breeding one, people will buy these and stop breeding more because they are not worth crafting, hence the offer will decrease and the demand is roughly constant (because there are always new players that need to buy new competitive pokemon, even old players keep making more and more competitive pokemon with specific techs)

 

Also the way to "consume" mons is quite simple, and is the same process as vanities. When some account goes inactive, all of their belongings become dormant for an indefinite amount of times hence are not available on the market anymore, or when the active players are holding onto theirs.
That's the same effect with mons like Gengar, once you have it you don't have any more reason to sell it unless you drop competitive, or some update brings a new ability that makes the old 5iv pokemon unviable. That happened recently with the Hidden Abilities and you can see if you look close enough that the Pokemon like Gliscor or Sharpedo that got great Hidden Abilities are now much cheaper than they used to be (for the non Hidden Ability 5iv pricing) because people want to get rid of these to make the new version of the comp 🙂 

 

But overall the pricing of competitive mons fluctuates more around 800-950k. If you are paying 1.2 million for a Gengar, you are not looking at the right place

 

Edited November 17, 2022 by TohnR

[caioxlive13]

8 minutes ago, TohnR said:

But overall the pricing of competitive mons fluctuates more around 800-950k. 

Assuming 5x31, which only Newbie players and riches that want to broadcast their "perfect" mon will buy.
Usually for comp, most part prefer using 2x31 3x25+ or 3x31 2x25+ , depending of mon and their sets. Those ivs Spreads are too efficient than 5x31, and cost less.

Some people even try their luck and use only 2x31, don't caring about the rest(like me. Usually i use 1x30 1x31)

Edited November 17, 2022 by caioxlive13

[MrHusky]

15 minutes ago, TohnR said:

Because the price of the mon on the market is related with the amount of money required to breed said mon
As you may know, you need to spend items "power braces" that cost 10k each to transmit IVs. Their value isn't purely speculative, if the value goes bellow the cost of breeding one, people will buy these and stop breeding more because they are not worth crafting, hence the offer will decrease and the demand is roughly constant (because there are always new players that need to buy new competitive pokemon, even old players keep making more and more competitive pokemon with specific techs)

 

Also the way to "consume" mons is quite simple, and is the same process as vanities. When some account goes inactive, all of their belongings become dormant for an indefinite amount of times hence are not available on the market anymore, or when the active players are holding onto theirs.
That's the same effect with mons like Gengar, once you have it you don't have any more reason to sell it unless you drop competitive, or some update brings a new ability that makes the old 5iv pokemon unviable. That happened recently with the Hidden Abilities and you can see if you look close enough that the Pokemon like Gliscor or Sharpedo that got great Hidden Abilities are now much cheaper than they used to be (for the non Hidden Ability 5iv pricing) because people want to get rid of these to make the new version of the comp 🙂 

 

But overall the pricing of competitive mons fluctuates more around 800-950k. If you are paying 1.2 million for a Gengar, you are not looking at the right place

 

Thanks for the wonderful answer!!!